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March 24, 2015

Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius,
forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family--his loving
wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been
ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he
wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The
stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he
loves?

Hope to Die brings readers the conclusion to the story that
began in Cross My Heart. It is a crazy and emotional run and has one of the
most disturbing antagonists in the whole series to date.

Can there really be a perfect criminal? Or can one man
withstand trying tests to take him down in the end?

That is Cross’s mission, and he learns a lot about himself
and his family along the way.

I must say, with every book I read in this series, I just
like Bree more and more as a character, and this one didn’t let me down there.
She gets stronger and more integral to the series with every book, and she is
definitely one of my favorite characters overall from this series.

Hope to Die is a page turner, and I don’t think anyone will
be let down by the awesome ending.

Somehow I ended up reading this book before Cross My Heart.
It made a lot more sense once I went back and read that one. Goes to show, you
should never skip a book in a series.

March 23, 2015

Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart--nothing
matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His
love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil
in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses Alex's strength as a weapon
against him. When the ones Cross loves are in danger, he will do anything to
protect them. If he does anything to protect them, they will die.

Alex Cross’s family is always in danger. He is a well known
man in the criminal circuit because he solves the majority of his cases.

This book takes it a step further. His family is actually
taken away from him and he doesn’t know how to get them back. It seems that any
action will cause their death. Being a family man, this is the worst reality he
could ever imagine facing.

This novel brings us two cases – Alex’s family being taken
and “massage” parlors being shot up and babies being kidnapped.

We meet two very different psychopaths. One is cold blooded
and very intelligent. He is the one taking Cross’s life away from him. The
other is a heartbreaking tale of a rotten childhood.

I wish the second case had been explored more. It seemed
that after the reveal happened, the storyline was just dropped and never
returned to it. I wanted to know more about the man.

Overall, this was a pretty fast paced book. But, it took me
a bit of time to get through it. I accidentally read Hope To Die before this
one, so I knew how everything turned out before it happened. If I didn’t it
would have made this much more of a thriller for me, but it was still a page
turner.

March 17, 2015

From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his
great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux
Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel
he's written--a novel called Trial.

Connected by blood

As a lawyer in turn-of-the-century Washington D.C., Ben
Corbett represents the toughest cases. Fighting against oppression and racism,
he risks his family and his life in the process. When President Roosevelt asks
Ben to return to his home town to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the
Ku Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse.

United by bravery

When he arrives in Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets the wise
Abraham Cross and his beautiful granddaughter, Moody. Ben enlists their help,
and the two Crosses introduce him to the hidden side of the idyllic Southern
town. Lynchings have become commonplace and residents of the town's black
quarter live in constant fear. Ben aims to break the reign of terror--but the
truth of who is really behind it could break his heart.

This book is quite a step away from the regular Alex Cross
novels, but it is every bit as intriguing… and much more disturbing.

It tackles the history of the Cross family led by one
Abraham Cross a strong and extremely intelligent man living in the KKK
dominated South.

It was hard not to cringe at some of the things going on in
this book because the way people were, and still are, treated due to skin color
is just plain sickening. It is one of those books that you don’t really want to
believe, but know that there is some historical accuracy laced into every page.

It was a good book, but hard to get through for reasons
above. I say any fan of the Cross series should definitely give it a shot even
though it is separate from the main series.